Socket.io is kinda big, the documentation is not great, there's a lot of baggage there from it's history, etc. ws is faster, and most browsers now support web

Socket.io is kinda big, the documentation is not great, there's a lot of baggage there from it's history, etc. ws is faster, and most browsers now support web sockets properly. If you want some isolation, there are various shim layers that are available.